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This website has been created to present analysis of the Professional Snooker Tour. Please note that it is not intended to be a source of snooker statistics – there are already plenty of sites out there for this purpose. Instead, I will be using analysis to explore different aspects of the ranking system and the structure of the Professional Tour. More…

Latest News:

– Mark Williams defeated Graeme Dott in the final of the German Masters to claim his second ranking event title of the season.

– Mark Allen defeated Kyren Wilson in the final to claim his first Masters title.

– Neil Robertson won the last 5 frames to defeat Cao Yupeng in the final of the Scottish Open and claim his first ranking title since the 2016 Riga Masters.

– Ronnie O’Sullivan defeated Shaun Murphy in the final of the UK Championship to claim his third ranking title of the season.

– Mark Williams won the Northern Ireland Open to claim his first ranking title since 2013. He defeated Yan Bingtao, who became the youngest ever player to contest the final of a ranking event.

Click here for a list of tournament winners during the 2016/17 season.

Snooker Ratings:

The rating system I have created is based on a system devised by Arpad Elo to rank Chess players. I am not the first person to create such a system for Snooker, and I’m sure that I won’t be the last either.

The ratings are designed to reflect the strength of a player relative to all other players, so if Player A (rating = 1,000) plays Player B (rating = 500) then you would expect Player A to win twice as many frames as Player B. This type of rating system is in many ways the purest way to rank players according to their ability and I hope that it will be of interest to followers of the game. More…

My intention is to report on my analysis in a way that is accessible to all readers. I encourage you to contact me if there is anything which isn’t clear and I would be happy to clarify or amend any posts.

Please contact me at james@snookeranalyst.com if you have any thoughts or suggestions about this site.